Re: FAT32 to EXT3

From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch adelphia net>

To: Jørgen Thomsen <list jth net>

Cc: ext3-users redhat com

Subject: Re: FAT32 to EXT3

Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:48:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Jørgen Thomsen wrote:
> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:37:54 -0500 skrev du:
>
> >Partition magic can do that, but I don't believe it can convert FAT->Ext2
> >or NTFS->Ext2. I don't think it even recognizes Ext3 correctly yet, either.
>
> Has anybody tried Partition Magic on an ext3 partition ? I have used it
> successfully to resize ext2 partitions, but haven't dared try it on my ext3
> partitions.
I have. It gets mightily confused, though to their credit it bails
without damaging anything. IIRC, it initially thinks the filesystem is
ext2, but throws an exception over internal data at a later point.
Steve